NW IMPACT

Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry, and Technology

The Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry, and Technology — or NW IMPACT — is a joint research collaboration of the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington.

These prominent research institutions in Washington state—PNNL and UW—initiated NW IMPACT to combine their existing strengths in materials science and create new opportunities for students by facilitating collaborative research teams.

NW IMPACT aims to advance research within the Pacific Northwest region in the science of making materials, and to educate the next generation of chemists, physicists, and engineers in materials science.

News

Marcel Baer

PNNL's Marcel Baer wins DOE Early Career Award in Biomolecular Materials program

Marcel Baer's research will use computational methods to understand and design modular electron transfer building blocks that mimic natural modules comprising iron-sulfur clusters in peptide units. Synthetic sequence-defined polymers will be used in the design of these building blocks instead of natural peptides. more ...

CrI3

Magnetic skyrmions in monolayer CrI3

A theoretical study from UW and PNNL shows how atomically precise chemical doping controls the magnitude and direction of magnetic skyrmions in two-dimensional CrI3 monolayers. more ...

Guomin Zhu

UW's Guomin Zhu Wins Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award

Dr. Guomin Zhu's research in the interfacial controls on the nucleation and growth of mesocrystals and nanomaterials earned him a gold level award from the Materials Research Society. more ...

UW and PNNL contribute materials science expertise to C2QA, a national Quantum Information Center

UW and PNNL contribute materials science expertise to C2QA, a national Quantum Information Center

UW and PNNL are providing expertise in the quantum properties of defects in crystals to the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage, C2QA, led by Brookhaven National Laboratory. more ...

James De Yoreo

James De Yoreo wins prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Award

NW IMPACT founding co-director, James De Yoreo, has been named a 2020 Distinguished Scientist Fellow by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. He is recognized for "transformational discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of materials synthesis", and his successes in establishing collaborations between universities and national laboratories. more ...

NW IMPACT team leads new Energy Frontier Research Center

The Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales (CSSAS), funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, is mastering the design of hierarchical materials based on sequence-defined macromolecules that self-assemble into soft matter and direct the organization of inorganic components into hybrid materials. This center is led by the University of Washington and directed by Francois Baneyx. The deputy director is Jim De Yoreo, who is a founding co-director of NW IMPACT. more ...

Quantum Materials are the focus of a new Energy Frontier Research Center

NW IMPACT researcher Xiaodong Xu leads the UW contribution to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) entitled Programmable Quantum Materials. Xu has led a NW IMPACT project on quantum phenomena in two dimensional materials since early 2018. more ...

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